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Jean Michel Basquiat

  1. rich flex
    Welcome to DrakelandThe rapper is reopening a defunct 1980s amusement park with installations from Keith Haring, Basquiat, and more.
    By Justin Curto
  2. mysteries
    Atelier Jolie Has Been DefacedThe former Basquiat studio turned Angelina Jolie concept project has been painted pink.
    By Clio Chang
  3. who’s buying
    Angelina Jolie Had to Have Basquiat’s Former StudioTo open her concept store about tailoring.
    By Clio Chang
  4. theater review
    Two Kings, Not Much Pleasure: The CollaborationWarhol and Basquiat, painted by numbers.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. local lore
    The Williamsburg Building That Painted Over BasquiatWere the residents of a former factory on South 11th Street living in the “Sistine Chapel” of SAMO graffiti?
    By Diana Budds
  6. the group portrait
    A Basquiat Family ReunionThe artist’s sisters have put on an exhibition of his work to remind the world where he came from — and have a party.
    By Carl Swanson
  7. party report
    Basquiat’s Art Career Took Off in Part Thanks to an Indie Film“All of the books that talk about Annina Nosei giving Jean-Michel his first studio, that wasn’t actually true.”
    By Justin Curto
  8. screenings
    Jean-Michel Basquiat Film Downtown 81 Is Returning to TheatersVulture will co-host the film’s New York premiere with Metrograph Pictures before a national rerelease.
    By Justin Curto
  9. art
    Study Warhol and Basquiat at a School Turned Gallery in Upstate New YorkNeither of these artists was known as a nature lover, of course.
    By Matthew Silver
  10. art
    What Does It Mean for Basquiat to Be Back in the East Village?Not that he’d recognize the place if he were still alive.
    By Phoebe Hoban
  11. A Guide to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s New YorkA glossary elaborating on many of the sources and references within Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
    By Mark Asch
  12. just browsing
    $110.5 Million Basquiat Painting Is 6th Most Expensive Work Sold at AuctionIt is one of 11 to sell for over $100 million.
    By Sarah Spellings
  13. art
    The Bromance of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel BasquiatAn in-progress play explores the unplumbed depths of the two artists’ fraught relationship. Was it actually just romance?
    By Kyle Chayka
  14. Anna Wintour at New York: The Art SceneShe got Jean-Michel Basquiat to make a custom painting for a fashion shoot.
    By The Cut
  15. art
    What It Was Like to Be Basquiat’s LoverThree scenes from Suzanne Mallouk’s life with the famous artist. 
    By Jennifer Clement
  16. legends
    Patti Astor, Eighties Art-Scene Icon And Wild Style Star, Still Has FunThe East Village art-scene pioneer and indie-movie icon takes Vulture on a walking tour through a lost world.
    By Mary Kaye Schilling
  17. Openings
    Hidden Cocktail Bar Will Serve Heart Carpaccio to the Select FewThe latest members-only bar, located in the building where Basquiat died, is most definitely not a speakcheesy.
    By Daniel Maurer
  18. politics
    Jeffrey Deitch Wants a Basquiat in the White HouseWhile Obama continues to put together his Cabinet in Washington, Deitch and his art-world colleagues are working to install one of their own at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
    By Andrew Goldstein